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- It is 3:40 in the morning.

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Going to work.

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And we'll awake the recruits up at 5,

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and get the day started.

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I'm Chief Devala.

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I am a Recruit Division Commander

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here at RTC Great Lakes.

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I think these recruits have this idea that

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just one day we woke
up and we became RDC's

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as if we've never had
to go through a process,

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as if we never went
through any of the hard

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times to get where we're at.

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Assigned to each division
there are three RDC's.

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Typically one is going
to be a chief or a lead,

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which could be also a
first class petty officer,

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and then you will have two partners

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which would be a second
class or another first class.

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(Indistinguishable shouting)

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On the fleet you'll often hear people talk

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about recruit training
command, or RDC duty,

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being arduous, which it is arduous.

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It's hard.

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However, you also hear that, you know,

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you don't get time off,
you're eight weeks straight,

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seven days a week, no time off whatsoever,

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where you're pretty
much just sleeping here

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at the barracks.

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Which none of that is true,

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and you have three partners

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that nobody ever wants to talk about.

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They think that you're
pushing one division

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by yourself without any help.

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You're gonna have the
best time at this command

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or you're going to have the
worst time at this command,

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and it is what you make
it to be in the end.

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(Indistinct marching cadence singing)

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Victory! Victory!

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That's our battle cry!

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There are most definitely
days where you'll wake up

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and you do not want to come into work.

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You don't want to do it,

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and then you realize
that you have a red rope

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on your shoulder and
you are doing something

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that a lot of people will never want to do

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or even think about doing.

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It's mind-blowing to think
of all the good things

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that I'm putting in these recruits

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that are going to be sailors

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and they're going to go
out and do great things.

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(Indistinct marching cadence singing)